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UPPSALA PROGRAM ON RELIGION AND CONFLICT<br />
Address Not indicated, no formal institution.<br />
Phone<br />
Fax<br />
Web www.religionandconflict.net<br />
E-Mail<br />
Peter.Brune@life-peace.org (member of steering<br />
group)<br />
Category Research & Knowledge<br />
MISSION STATEMENT<br />
<strong>The</strong> Uppsala Program on Religion and Conflict is an attempt to link scholars in different research institutions sharing a research<br />
interest in the relationship between religion, conflict, and peace. While not a formal institution, the Program is a platform for research<br />
and publication initiatives of cross-scientific nature. It is guided by a steering group consisting of scholars from three different<br />
institutions: Uppsala University, the Life and Peace <strong>Institute</strong>, and the Church of Sweden.<br />
Founding year Not indicated.<br />
2007 Workshop Planning:<br />
BACKGROUND AND ACTIVITIES<br />
At the Department of Peace and Conflict Research at Uppsala University a project has been initiated to map religious dimensions in<br />
armed conflicts around the world in connection with the Department’s well known, already existing conflict database<br />
www.pcr.uu.se/database/index.php.<br />
In a workshop, planned during 2007, the Life & Peace <strong>Institute</strong>, Uppsala, together with the Department of Peace and Conflict<br />
Research wants to discuss, illustrate and study the religious dimension of armed conflict, developed within a theoretical framework,<br />
and examine primarily in ongoing conflicts where religious factors are believed to play a role. At the workshop, a presentation of how<br />
the database is used when it comes to examining these questions will be made. By creating new data on both religious identities and<br />
parties' explicit positions, the Uppsala Programme on Religion and Conflict explores questions relating to whether religious<br />
incompatibilities and / or difference in religious identities tend to make armed conflict more or less prone for peaceful resolution.<br />
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS<br />
Svensson, I., L. Minnhagen, et al. (2005). Rebellion, Religion and Resolution: Exploring the Religious Dimensions of Peace<br />
Agreements (draft), Uppsala University / Program on Religion and Conflicts: 1-21.<br />
REMARKS<br />
Members of the Steering Group:<br />
Peter Brune: Director, <strong>The</strong> Life & Peace <strong>Institute</strong>, Uppsala.<br />
Kjell-Åke Nordquist: Assoc. Prof., Dept. of Peace and Conflict Research,<br />
Uppsala University, Uppsala.<br />
Isak Svensson: PhD candidate, Dept. of Peace and Conflict Research,<br />
Uppsala University, Uppsala.<br />
Göran Gunner: Researcher, Church of Sweden Research Council, Uppsala.